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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am |
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> running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. |
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> I just never had as much success with VMWare. |
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> Good luck, |
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> Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262 |
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> Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 |
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So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun |
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correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch |
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something first. I'll have to check into that. |
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There's also Xen, right? Is it too early for an Open Source alternative? |
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What about disk space for each virtual machine? Does the |
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vmware/virtualbox installation grab some part of the physical disk to |
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start, or does it see all the disks in my system and then I grab some |
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portion of those to do my partitioning for each installation? |
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I.e. - can I give /dev/sda10 away to vmware and then everything stays |
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on that partition? I'd like ot be very careful about not messing up my |
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existing Gentoo installation when an XP process goes haywire and |
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somehow goes out to destroy my /root partition, etc. |
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Any extra requirements for an XP installation over and above what I'd |
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give XP itself? |
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I appreciate everyone's answers. I didn't expect this much info |
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figuring I'd just have to try it out and see for myself. Thanks! |
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- Mark |
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